Trio was a German band, formed in the small German town of Großenkneten in 1980. The band is most noted for the song "Da da da, ich lieb dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha aha aha" (usually simply "Da Da Da") which was a hit in 30 countries worldwide. Trio was part of the Neue Deutsche Welle (or NDW); however, the band preferred the name "Neue Deutsche Fröhlichkeit", which means "New German Cheerfulness", to describe their music. At that time, as now, popular songs were based on extremely simple structures that were ornately produced. Trio's main principle was to remove almost all the ornamentation and polish from their songs, and to use the simplest practical structures (most of their songs were three-chord songs). For this reason, many of their songs are restricted to drums, guitar, vocals, and just one or maybe two other instruments, if any at all. Bass was used very infrequently until their later songs, and live shows often saw Remmler playing some simple pre-programmed rhythms and melodies on his small Casio VL-1 keyboard while Behrens played his drums single-handedly while eating an apple.

The band produced a number of albums. There are many versions of Bye Bye (marked with different advertisements on the cover); versions in North America are called TRIO and Error and feature no advertisements. The 1997 CD of TRIO and Error was also released as Da Da Da in the United States, in response to the 1997 US Volkswagen commercial that featured the song "Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha", often contracted to simply "Da Da Da". The re-release had some changes: two songs were added and the album was digitally remastered.

They produced a movie called Drei gegen Drei, meaning "Three Against Three". In the movie, three people (played by Trio) kill doubles of themselves as part of a twisted scam to gain riches. However, the movie flopped miserably; even avid Trio fan Matthias Klein said, "[the members of] Trio are not actors". The corresponding soundtrack is the album Whats the Password; however, drummer Peter Behrens did not perform on any of the songs, despite appearing on the album's cover. He left the band due to dissatisfaction with Kralle and Remmler over financial matters, leading to the complete breakup of Trio in 1985.

Three thousand years later, a young science teacher dug up the amulet and found she was heir to The Secrets of Isis!

Episode 5: Rockhound's Roost - On a rock hunting expedition a student finds himself face to face with an angry bear.

The Secrets of Isis is the syndicated title of a live action CBS television series produced by Filmation in the 1970s originally titledIsis that appeared during the Saturday morning cartoon lineup. The show was also aired in various countries around the world. As indicated on commentary in the 2007 DVD release of the series, and supported by examining broadcast premiere dates, The Secrets of Isis was the first weekly American live-action television series whose lead character was a female superhero, debuting September 6, 1975 and predating the weekly debuts of both The Bionic Woman (January 14, 1976) and Wonder Woman (April 21, 1976).

The sleazy yet endearingly clumsy and dorky charms of the Musikladen go-go dancers and assorted Euro dance videos of the 70s and 80s

"Der Musikladen" was a West German music show that aired from December 1972 to November 1984, a swift replacement for its very recently cancelled predecessor, "Beat Club" — premiering only four days after "Beat Club' signed off for good. At first, "Musikladen" took the elements that worked well in "Beat Club" — namely electrifying, rarely lip-synched performances — and revamped the vibe for a 70s audience with a much heavier dose of then-emerging video effects technology, the addition of a few pretty dancers accompanying the bands (more on this later), and much later, a shift towards heavily lip-synched performances. Over its nearly 12 year history, it showcased an impressive, diverse array of contemporary performers. Everyone from Pat Boone to Motörhead to Blondie to Ray Charles performed on the show, not to mention endless acts who (rightly or wrongly) vanished into obscurity or never attained popularity beyond Europe. Footage from "Musikladen" is often a wonderful document of classic groups of this era at their peak, invaluable records alongside segments from similar shows such as the UK's "Top of the Pops" or the more serious rock fan's "The Old Grey Whistle Test" and America's "The Midnight Special" or "Soul Train". If you are old enough to remember the "Closet Classics" feature during the early days of MTV, many of those clips came from "Beat Club" and "Musikladen" (ironic since MTV and the rise of the music video are among the trends that ultimately killed shows like "Musikladen").

With Musikladen's significant contribution to rock history in mind, I'm going to join a small cult of fans obsessing over the unheralded, low budget, kinda sleazy yet charmingly dorky and clumsy charms of the "Musikladen" go-go girls, who were cast initially as backup dancers, as well as the show's slavish commitment as the disco era dawned to enthusiastically abusing audiences with an increasing reliance on ever more complex, over the top but totally chintzy video effects, which were probably often used to spice up a dull performer, to distract from a pretty dancer's utter lack of skill or simply because it looked "neat". The combination of talentless Teutonic temptresses sexy shakin' it with gaudy visuals makes for a happy universe to visit.

As a longtime fan of dance-oriented U.S. shows of the 70s and 80s such as "Solid Gold", I've fallen into countless online rabbit holes discovering Euro TV dance troupe after Euro TV dance troupe that I missed out on growing up in the States. My assessment is this. While the "Top of the Pops" dance troupes Legs & Co and Pan's People as well as comedian Kenny Everett's sidekicks Hot Gossip had some real skill to bring to a disco hit, the "Musikladen" gals were barely synchronized, coordinated or even dressed. They resembled nothing so much as St. Pauli Girls who traded their dirndls for spandex hot pants and flimsy bikini tops for a night of drunkenly stumbling around the disco. There were no chorus lines, but you could usually see nipples. Due to their popularity, presumably with German dads, the "Musikladen" go-go dancers evolved quickly from background players to featured attractions — often performing to a recording of a current hit, no band appearance necessary.

In appreciation of "Musikladen", its go-go dancers and its hilarious production values, here are some choice clips with additional TV footage of the same era from across Europe.

"Musikladen" Opening Credits (1981) The theme song is Mood Mosaic's "A Touch of Velvet - A Sting of Brass". This episode boasts such guests as new wavers The Tubes and Kim Wilde ("Kids in America"), Commander Cody, Hoyt Axton (singer-songwriter, the dad in Gremlins), Boney M (German disco project of producer Frank Farian, the man behind Milli Vanilli), Baccara (Spanish language disco duo), Dire Straits, and Pat Boone. The assets of the go-go girls are on display even in the credits by this time.

Michael Zager Band - "Let's All Chant" (1978)Sleazy disco? Check. Thin costumes where you can make out nipples? Check. Dancers in cages? Check. Multiple images to disguise weak dancing and make it appear as though there are more than a couple dancers? Check.

Musikladen's "Telefonnummern" Feature (translation: phone book, date unknown) I am not positive what's happening here, but it appears that the girls are sharing phone numbers, maybe for an all-request feature, to ABBA's "Ring Ring" while essentially topless and sometimes skating into frame in roller derby gear (still without tops).

Angie Bee - "Plastic Doll" (1980) The Swiss exploitation actress Monica Zanchi (Sister Emanuelle, Emanuelle & the Last Cannibals, Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind) took a stab at a Eurodisco career under the pseudonym Angie Bee. In a trashily perfect pairing, Angie Bee girlishly flirts, pouts and squeak-sings about being a plastic doll while the "Musikladen" go-go dancers shimmy in the background wearing what amounts to topless semi-S&M gear.

Jimmy "Bo" Horne - "Let Me Be Your Lover" (1978) Sampled by the Stereo MCs on their 1992 hit "Connected", Jimmy "Bo" Horne's "Let Me Be Your Lover" was released by TK Records, the Florida disco label that was also home to KC & The Sunshine Band and Betty Wright ("Clean Up Woman"). The video effects are extra psychedelic, and the usual trickery to give the appearance of more dancers through duplicating images is in full effect.

Ferdy Lancee - "Rock 'n' Roll Heart" (1977) Ferdy Lancee, who kinda resembles a Dutch Peter Frampton, performs in front of a psychedelic tropical backdrop with the girls wearing the same topless semi-S&M outfits that later appeared in "Plastic Doll". There's also an odd intro by the girls in little besides feather boas.

Juan Pardo - "No Me Hables" (1981) There's a spinning neon star background, and the dancer on the left repeatedly stares at her feet. That couldn't have been part of the choreography.

The Twins - "Not the Loving Kind" (1983) In this clip from the new wave era, the "Musikladen" go-go dancers don full spandex bodysuits and fail at a robot chorus line to German synth pop outfit The Twins' "Not the Loving Kind". Based on the effects in this one, they may be going for an outer space effect or just think the glowing graph paper backdrop is futuristic.

Patto - "Black & White" (1984)This is the jewel in the "Musikladen" crown, if you will. This is from one of the last episodes before the show was cancelled. The dancers make an exceptionally poor showing performing to what is essentially a ham-fisted West German rap take on "Ebony & Ivory" (see lyrics below). The dance moves are especially awkward, but everyone looks so perky in their very 1984 workout gear. So at ease is one of the dancers (far right) that she has a slow motion nip slip over the course of the video and never adjusts herself.

Some "Black & White" lyrics: Penguins, zebras, panda bears are black and white like you and me. We can all learn from the animals how life is meant to be! “We shall overcome” is a song we all should sing. Hey let’s remember JFL and Martin Luther King!

Bizzy & Co - "Take a Chance" (Italian TV, 1982)The most bonkers clip in this collection is very much in the same vein as "Musikladen", but is actually from Italian TV. Things that exist in this video: a girl in a hot tub full of money throwing more money around, the gaudiest collection of video effects you've ever seen including a glowing dollar sign background, elements of a casino theme including flashing neon jokers, a synth accordion, non-sequitur appearances of "average folk" saying hello in their 80s finest (ruffles and bad perms abound), a random musician playing an animal horn, and much more. This was song used to promote a soap opera, and this clip appears to be part of the opening credits to another show.

Moon Ray - "Comanchero" (1985)This is a neon-bright computer generated music video for an Italo-Disco track that features an endless stream of cartoon Native Americans on horseback in a psychedelia meets arcade game twist on American Southwest art. This footage is interspersed with scenes of the female singer engulfed in flames.

Barbarella - "We Cheer You Up (Join The Pin Up Club)" (The Pin Up Club, Dutch TV, 1989) To close this collection out, we have an all female pop trio from the Netherlands, Barbarella, singing the theme to the Dutch TV show "The Pin Up Club". This is by far has the cheapest production values, the dumbest video effects, and the most boobs. There's also a belly dancer with a snake and a dancer doing a mini-striptease at the 2 minute mark.

A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.

Cemetery Man (Italian title: Dellamorte Dellamore) is a 1994 Italian comedy horror film directed by Michele Soavi. The film stars Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro and Anna Falchi. The film's story concerns the beleaguered caretaker of a small Italian cemetery, who searches for love while defending the town from zombies.